Jim Chronister 

Jim Chronister was a bartender at Circle, Alaska. He shot and killed Jim Washburn in 1896. A miners’ meeting was called, and they came to a verdict of self-defence. Jack Devine was not in town for the meeting, but he understood that old man McGinnis, a one-time lawyer, sent the minutes of the meeting to Washington, DC where the court having jurisdiction approved the verdict. ((Letter from Jack Devine in Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.)) 

In the Klondike goldfields, Chronister staked Discovery Last Chance on Feb 4. The claim had been abandoned by William Redford. He also staked a fraction on Bonanza Creek, 2 March 1907.